Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 10639, John Evans, N.H.

SERVICE
NUMBER _____
N. H.
Evans John
S 10639
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CONTENTS

20. 7/6 New York
John Evans
Jefferson Co. in the State of New York who was a private in the Comp. commanded by Captain Scott of the Regt. commanded by Col. Ellis in the Regt. for 7 1/2 months
New Hampshire Line.
Records corrected Aug 4 '63 Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 25 Dollars — Cents per annum, to commence on the 14th day of March, 1834.
Certificate of Pension issued the 28 day of Sep. 1839 and due to Mrs. Sarah Evans Miles
Arrears to the 14th of Sep '23 $ 62.50 Pension allowance ending 4 Mo '34 12.50 $75.00
{ Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by E. White Clerk, Book 6, Vol. 4, Page 55.
(8.10639)
Dead
Paid at the Treasury under the Act of the 6. April 1838 from 4 Sept 1835 to 19 Feb 1836, the day of his death aged 60 (died 16 Jan'y 1839)

John Evans
26. 258.
Admitted
Private 7 1/2 months
J. B. Tomblin Esq. Evans Mills County of Jefferson New York

State of New York } ss Jefferson County }
On the thirtieth day of May, 1833 personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Jefferson now sitting John Evans of the town of LeRay in the County of Jefferson and State of New York aged seventy three years who being first duly sworn accor- ding to Law doth on his oath make the follow- ing declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7 th 1832 that he entered the service of the United States and Served as herein stated -
That in the Spring of 1777 in the month of March he was drafted into the army of the United States and served the term of seven and a half months as a private soldier in a company commanded by Captain John Scott first Lieut Robertson 2 d Lieut Stone and Ensign Davis in Col Ellis: Regiment. That he left home the first of April 1777 and joined the army at Mount Independence General St Clair commanded the forces at the place there were at the time two other Regiments at Mount Independence years men or Continentals Com- manded by Col Lany and Col Mooney - That a short time before the retreat of St Clair he was sent to Sholam in Vermont with some sick that after they had recovered he joined his company and Regiment at Saratoga some

time before the battle at Bemus heights that at the time of the battle of Bemus Heights he was in a division of the army commanded by General Wallbridge on the opposite side of the river that he was discharged at Batten- kill on Hudson River about the middle of November 1777 that he cannot recollect the precise day he joined the army or was dischar- ged but according to his best recollection he did not serve less than seven & a half months
That he was born in the town of Hinsdale in the State of New Hampshire in the year 1760 that he has no record of his age. That Julia Stearns his wife, Mary Norwell, Deborah William Dubner & he reside in his neighbor- hood and can attest to his reputation for truth and veracity and as being a soldier in the Revolutionary army that since the Revolution he has resided in the State of New Hampshire and in the State of New- York. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state I have subscribed the day and year above written
P. Blackwood Clerk
John M c Lean

We Roswell Detham a Clergyman Residing in the town of Litchfield and county of Litchfield and John Macomber a Judge of the court of Common Pleas of said county Residing in the same place hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Evans who has subscribed and sworn to the above dec- laration that we believe him to be 73 years of age that he is reputed and believed in the Neighborhood where he resides to have been a Soldier of the revolution and that we con- cur in that opinion
Roswell Detham Sworn & subscribed the day & M as above and year aforesaid P. P. Burroughs Clerk
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states And the court further certifies that it appears to them that Roswell Detham who hath signed the preceding certificate is a Clergyman Resident in the town of Litchfield and that John Macomber

who has also signed the same is a resident of the town of Sebring and is a credible person and that their statements are entitled to Credit
I Peleg Burchard Clerk of the said court do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of said court in the matter of the application of John Evans for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of affix this 30 th day of May, 1833.
P. Burchard Clerk

State of New York Jefferson County
Ephraim Reed of the town of Le  Hebron in the County of said Being duly sworn according to Law says that he has been acquainted with John Evans who has subscribed the foregoing declaration since the year 1783 that soon after the peace he resided in the Neighborhood where the said Evans resided and lived with the said Evans that it was stated in the place where he then resided that he had been in the army of the Revolution that he the said Reed had two brothers in the army at the same time that the said Evans declares he was in the army. At the time of the Revolution and since has heard them say that that the said Evans was a Soldier in the army with them that his brothers went into the army in March or April and returned in the fall of the same year and after their return heard them speak of the said Evans being in the army that he the said Reed and his brothers above mentioned were acquainted with the said John Evans after the Revolution and has heard them convers about the events of their term of Service that he this deponent understood at the time that his brothers William Reed and John Reed and the said John Evans served in the same company And that the said Evans has always in the Neighborhoods where he has resided been reputed to have served in the Revolutionary war as he has stated And that he is a credible person and this deponent has no doubt of the truth of his statement and that his Brothers William Reed & John Reed are now dead
Subscribed & sworn to the Ephraim Reed
11 th day of March 1833 before me
John Mearns Clerk, Justice
I hereby certify that Ephraim Reed who has subscribed and sworn to the above affidavit is a credible witness and that his affidavit is entitled to full credit
March 11 th 1833
John Mearns Clerk Justice

State of New York } Jefferson County } ss
Eldad Evans of the town of Leek Alexandria in the County of State aforesaid being duly sworn says that John Evans of the town of Leek aforesaid at the time of the Revolution and during the Revolutionary war resided in the town of Hinsdale in the County of Cheshire in the State of New Hampshire that the last of March or first of April 1777 the said John Evans left home to go into the army he said and it was generally reported that they were going to the northern army that he saw him once when at home on furlough when sick with the measles that as soon as he was able he again left to go to the army that he did not return till after the surrender of Burgoyne's army that at the time he heard Luther Winislaw tell who belonged in the same company talk of the said John Evans being in the army
Subscribed & sworn the 11 th day of March 1833 before me Eldad Evans
John Marmulee, Justice hereby certify that Eldad Evans who has subscribed and sworn to the above affidavit is as known to me as a credible witness and that his affidavit is entitled to full credit March 11 th 1833
John Marmulee, Justice
State of New York Jefferson County ss I, P. Burchard Clerk of the said County do certify that John Marmulee Esq before whom the foregoing affidavit purport to have been sworn was at the date of the same one of the Justices of the peace in and for the said County. And that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit to be his proper hand writing and signature
Witness my hand and the seal of the said County this Eleventh day of June 1833.
P. Burchard Clerk J. P. Samlin Evans Mills Jeff Co New York

Rehan
10639
✓ INVALID.
File No. 10,639
John Evans
Rev Beer War
Act: June 7 th 1832
Index:—Vol. A , Page 117
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Jan 12 Mr Evans

TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
Second Comptroller's Office,
January 10 th , 1839.
Sir:
Under the act of the 6th of April, 1838 entitled "An act directing the transfer of money remaining unclaimed by certain Pensioners, and authorizing the payment of the same at the Treasury of the United States," The Widow of John Evans, — a Pensioner on the Roll of the Albany, N.York, Agency, at the rate of Twenty five Dollars and _____ Cents per annum, under the law of the 7 th June, 1832, has been paid at this Department, from the 4 th of Sept., 1835, to the 19 th February, 1836, the day of his death.
Respectfully, yours,
William H. Parris Comptroller.
To the Commissioner of Pensions,
Present.